Rizwan_Ahmed_(civil_servant)
Rizwan Ahmed (civil servant)
Pakistani civil servant
Rizwan Ahmed (Urdu: رضوان احمد) is the current Member of Sindh Public Service Commission and a former grade 22 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service who served at the highest civil service office of Federal Secretary. He did his two-year Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and joined the civil service in 1988. Rizwan holds the rare distinction of having served as the chief executive of four state-owned organisations under the Government of Pakistan, the most by any individual in history at the federal level.[1]
Rizwan first came to the fore when he saved more than PKR 7 billion of the national exchequer through a sweeping anti-corruption drive and commodity financing operation during his tenure as Chairman of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).[2][3]
He served as the Federal Secretary for Maritime Affairs for a period of almost three years, during which he became the first ever Pakistani to hold the chairmanship of INFOFISH, an intergovernmental organisation based in Kuala Lampur with several Asia-Pacific countries as its members.[4]
Rizwan is widely regarded as one of the most successful chairman to have headed the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), having extensively expanded the national fleet during his tenure which led to PNSC posting its highest ever profit in history. He remains the only individual to have served twice as Chairman PNSC.[5]
In December 2022, Rizwan was appointed as Member of the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) for a term ending December 2026.[6]
Rizwan is a Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and remained a Teaching Fellow for Financial Management at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was promoted to the country's top bureaucratic rank of grade 22 in 2017.[7]